Dayuse.com hands brief to Golley Slater PR

Dayuse.com, a French website offering hotel rooms by the hour during the day, has brought in Golley Slater PR to handle its UK consumer and corporate PR. MD Eileen Stretton will head up the Golley Slater team, which has been briefed to raise the profile of the business and promote the concept of out-of-hours room booking. The agency plans to create […]

Aspectus opens Aberdeen office

Aspectus, a global communications agency serving the energy, engineering, financial and services sectors, has opened an office in Aberdeen to support its growing oil and gas client base. Laura Illey will lead the Aberdeen team as head of oil and gas. Illey has been promoted from her former role as account director of oil and gas. […]

Golin to handle UK launch of razor brand Dorco

Golin has been chosen to handle the UK launch of razor manufacturer Dorco and promote its new subscription service. Dorco, which launched in South Korea in 1955, provides shaving products to customers in more than 130 countries. Razors by Dorco launched in the UK market in July 2015. It uses the UK as its European […]

White Paper: PR’s identity in 2016

In this new White Paper, Gorkana explores how the growth and proliferation of media channels has affected PR and how the industry positions itself in the marketing mix. In public relations, there is now a trend, particularly among agencies, to offer services in social media, online content and SEO, which has blurred the identity and scope […]

Andrew Soar returns to Unity as engagement chief

Andrew Soar has returned to Unity to take on the newly created role of head of engagement, nearly two years after moving to Shine Communications, as associate creative director. Soar (pictured left) previously worked at Unity for more than three years before moving to consumer PR agency Shine as associate creative director. In January, consumer PR […]

Richard Carnell-Jones joins H+K London

PR and integrated comms consultancy, Hill + Knowlton London (H+K), has appointed Richard Carnell-Jones as associate director of its energy and industrials team. Carnell-Jones will focus on strategic communications and reputation management and help clients develop multichannel communications programmes. He will report to Simon Whitehead, MD at H+K’s energy and industrial team. Carnell-Jones said: “H+K’s energy […]

Supply chain tech win for Cubitt

Virtualstock, a tech company with software which evaluates and improve the efficiencies of company supply chains, has brought in Cubitt Consulting as its corporate comms adviser. Virtualstock (VS) works with retail businesses and the public sector, providing software that allows companies to look at their stock and processes without overhauling the systems themselves. Clients include Tesco, Maplin and Office […]

60 seconds with Maria Darby-Walker, Citigate

Maria Darby-Walker, senior director at Citigate Dewe Rogerson, on getting into PR by accident, the importance of not leaving a void when communicating during a crisis and her admiration for Ruth Sunderland at the Mail. What media are you reading on way into the office? The Financial Times, primarily. I will always pick up a copy of City AM […]

Cardew Group forges transatlantic partnership

London-based corporate and financial comms adviser Cardew Group has joined forces with New York investor relations firm, Taylor Rafferty, to offer capital markets advice to clients in the UK and the US. The companies will combine expertise and skills as an offer to clients in their respective regions, as capital markets and their investment communities have “grown […]

Domino’s hands brief to Shine @ The Academy

Domino’s, the world’s leading pizza delivery company, has appointed Shine @ The Academy as its retained consumer PR agency in the UK. Shine @ The Academy, which won the account following a competitive pitch, has been briefed to provide proactive and reactive media relations and brand activation work day-to-day across traditional and social media. The […]